Quote Originally Posted by Amazingless View Post
Okay, fair enough, thank you.

I suppose I was hoping for a bit more insight, but no worries.
You asked me how I felt - I told you. Not really sure what you were expecting... offended? Not really.
Disappointed? Don't recall...
Shocked? - probably...
Angry? Not really.

I had never encountered such a thing before. I was in a friend's house and his father asked if I knew his son from school. I said I didn't, as I went to John Ogilvie. (Wee Jim was a friend of a friend I knew from air cadets) He then appeared to get angry very quickly, stood up, called me a feenyin bastird and ordered me out of his house. I was 15 years old. My parents had never told me about this sort of thing, nor had I ever experienced it before, so it was surprising. That was it really, apart from the "What school did you go to" at a couple of job interviews before I joined the RAF.
It's a bit of a stand out from my younger days, like slicing my finger on a bottle in a burn, or seeing a ghost up the bing, or coming off a bike roaring down the Glebe in Hamilton. It offered a bit of an insight into how these people think and act, but they and their attitudes will all be dead one day and the world will be a better place for it.